Splitting the Heave

“Coral Command?” Shang Xia gasped in fright. “Is this… Is this the key to controlling the Coral Forest?!”

The smile on Shang Bo’s face grew wider. “Looks like you know quite a lot… Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that you little brat would get your hands on the Coral Command after so many Martial Extermination Realm experts arrived.” 

While he spoke, the sense of satisfaction he felt in his heart started to leak out through the arrogant smirk his smile was transforming to.

It was an expression Shang Xia had hardly seen on his grandfather’s face.

When thoughts were still running wild in his mind, Shang Bo had already started to walk towards him with large steps.

Stepping away from the tiny mountain, Shang Xia made way for his grandfather.

Shang Bo reached for the Coral Command the moment he came in range. His extermination origins appeared to surround his palm as he reached over, and Shang Bo’s inner qi entered the Coral Command at a terrifying speed. Shang Xia’s previous attempt to control the Coral Command with his inner qi was barely acceptable when compared to his grandfather.

In the blink of an eye, the Coral Command started to glow with three different colors. A fourth color would flicker from time to time as Shang Bo continued to pour his inner qi into the object.

The formation under their feet shone with indescribable radiance all of a sudden as the heaven and earth qi around them started to fluctuate wildly. They turned into the four screens that appeared originally, and the situation in all four special regions played out simultaneously. The angle at which they were observing the situation was much higher than before, and their position was much more stealthy.

Shang Xia turned to look at the screen that displayed the Mountain and Sea Fantasy Spiritual World, and he saw Ran Biluo once again. Unlike before, she was unable to detect anyone spying on her.

The Coral Command clearly wasn’t only used to spy on the situation in the special regions. However, that was the best Shang Xia could do with his limited cultivation level! Now that Shang Bo was there, those who had malicious plans against the Tongyou Institution were in for a world of pain. 

There might be more uses for the Coral Command, but it wasn’t time for them to look into all of them. Shang Bo was only interested in using it to gain the largest amount of advantage over the others. However, his plans were destroyed by Shang Xia. “Grandpa, there are many undead corpses in the manor. One of them even reached the fifth rank!” 

“Fifth rank?” Shang Bo’s expression turned serious and he growled, “Explain everything in detail!” 

Shang Xia thought about the roar released by the rank five undead corpse and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva uneasily. “It’s… It’s the patriarch of the Zhu Family, Zhu Tong. He apparently turned into a rank five undead corpse and he’s currently attacking Ji Wenlong, Lang Xiaoyun, and some other Martial Extermination Realm expert somewhere in the Zhu Family Manor. I accidentally opened a spatial door close to them when the battle was raging on, and Deputy Patriarch Ji saved my life…” 

After he spoke, he explained what happened when he pulled the blade out from the ground.

He was extremely confused, but Shang Bo was even more befuddled by what was going on. Basically, everything that Shang Xia said made almost no sense to him. However, his suspicions were reduced by a whole lot after examining the blade on the ground and the formation around it.

Shang Bo didn’t hesitate for a second. After refining the Coral Command, he pointed at the blade in the ground.

The blade shot through the air and landed in Shang Xia’s hands with a single intention from Shang Bo.

Fumbling to grab the blade, Shang Xia yelled in fright, “Grandpa, the spatial door will open once you remove the blade! The rank five undead corpse will be able to charge its way back here!” 

The words barely left his lips when a spatial door started to form. 

“Hurry up and keep the blade properly…” Shang Bo muttered without even looking at him.

Realizing the importance of the blade, Shang Xia kept it securely into his own Embroidered Cloud Case.

It seemed as though everyone in the upper echelons of the Tongyou Institution knew about Zhu Ying’s plan. Shang Bo didn’t wish for anyone to know that his grandson was the one who killed Zhu Ying and disrupted everyone’s schemes. As such, he needed to get rid of any evidence that might lead him back to Zhu Ying!

The moment the spatial door was created, the shockwaves of the battle ripped through the air. A headless undead corpse appeared all of a sudden and tried to charge through the gate.

“Zhu Liang?” Shang Bo snorted softly and his Nine Firefly Lance appeared in his hand. It stabbed straight towards the undead corpse. 

With its limited intelligence, the undead corpse surprisingly discovered that it had no way of escaping. It roared loudly and charged towards Shang Bo with everything it had. 

The specks of light floating in the air gathered together, and Shang Bo’s extermination origin appeared. His Nine Firefly Lance made a beautiful arc through the skies and crushed the undead corpse directly. The withered corpse exploded with a massive bang.

When that happened, an enraged cry filled the skies and a powerful energy wave swept towards them. 

“The rank five undead corpse is here!” Shang Xia reminded. 

Ignoring Shang Xia for the time being, Shang Bo yelled, “Chief Ji, over here!” 

A black shadow shook Lang Xiaoyun off before rushing straight towards the spatial door. Even though Shang Bo knew that it was the rank five undead corpse, he didn’t waver in the slightest.

All of a sudden, another wave of energy filled the air as Ji Wenlong’s sorry figure charged over. 

Shang Bo and Ji Wenlong came to a tacit understanding as they moved at the same time, unleashing their full strength. Shang Xia stood behind his grandfather as he craned his neck to the side to see what was going on. 

A burst of light was all he could see and he was nearly blinded by the resplendent glow.

He failed to catch a glimpse of what the two super experts did, and all he knew was that Shang Bo’s unwavering figure stood tall before the spatial door. Shang Xia’s palpitating heart calmed down slightly. 

Twisting his body to the side, a figure flew past Shang Bo. As soon as that happened, Shang Bo swung his Nine Firefly Lance to shatter the spatial door once again. His voice tore through the air, “Hurry and shatter the restriction in case the spatial door reappears!” 

The shadow that flew past Shang Bo finally revealed himself. Shang Xia finally saw Ji Wenlong’s disastrous appearance for himself.

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“Hiss…” Shang Bo spat out a mouthful of blood all of a sudden. Before the blood could hit the floor, Shang Bo grabbed them in his hands before imbuing some of his inner qi into them. Waving his hands, he scattered them around the formation to fix it completely.

The spatial door that was starting to reform itself dissipated in a gust of wind.

Ji Wenlong crawled to his feet slowly and looked at the grandfather-grandson duo. His beard was stained with blood and his clothes weren’t spared either. However, his eyes sparkled with joy as he addressed Shang Xia. “Brat, you did good this time!”